Birthday blues for daddy dearest

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For any father, the toughest of days would be the ones they have to miss being with their children on the young ones’ birthdays owing to their hectic schedules. The situation is no different, whether he is an architect, sportsman, businessman or even an actor.

Take for example the recent case of popular actor Kamal Haasan, who had plans of celebrating his talented singer-cum-actor daughter Shruti Haasan’s birthday on January 28, but had to cancel out owing to the hectic promotion of his controversy-enveloped movie Vishwaroopam.
In most cases, children seem to take it in the right spirit. And fathers do ensure that they make up for it adequately at a later point of time. But to assume that there would be absolutely no heartburn for both parties involved, when the father misses the child’s birthday, would be a tad gullible. That said, the fact remains that most of the times, try as much as one might, missing children’s birthdays becomes inevitable.
Says ex-Indian captain and cricket commentator Kris Srikkanth, “During my playing days, cricket kept me very busy with all the globe-trotting, so missing my children’s birthdays became unavoidable. In fact, I wasn’t there when my eldest son was born, or on his first birthday. Luckily, my wife made sure that my absence wasn’t missed and I made up for it after I was back home from tours. Now the children are all grown up, so it’s not much of an issue.”
Popular south singer Vijay Yesudas says that so far he has not missed the birthday of his daughter Ammeya, who will turn four this March. “I make sure I don’t let my work be scheduled on her special day. It’s the same with my wife’s birthdays too.” As the son of legendary yesteryear singer K.J. Yesudas, Vijay says that the best way his father used to tackle the issue of not being on his or his two brothers’ birthdays, was by taking them along to wherever he was. “My father used to take me and my brothers on our birthdays wherever he was performing a concert or recording a song. That way, he never had to miss out on his work, and we didn’t have to miss him on our birthdays.” Fathers, on their part, take this seriously. Like Tiger Woods, who after missing his first son’s birthday, swore that he would never miss another one after that. Well, super daddys across the world might be wishing that their clocks had more than 24 hours, but when it comes to wishing their young ones on their special days and being there for them, they go the extra mile to make it all the more memorable for their young ones.